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Signature search is a major data recovery technology that revolutionized the entire recovery market. Products using signature search can do things that appear magic. Tool employing signature search can undelete files deleted a long time ago, recover data from formatted and repartitioned hard drives, and extract information from disks with damaged or missing file systems.

Data recovery tools for home users and small businesses are utterly different from tools intended for the use by system administrators managing networks of multiple PCs. Tools for system administrators will normally offer certain features that would unnecessarily complicate tools intended for the home user market. In this article, we will have a look at one of such tools, and discuss the features aimed at the sysadmin crowd.

As manufacturers of software tools for recovering users’ data, we are often presented with cases when our tools could not help. Is there a different tool that could do the job better, or is information truly unrecoverable? In this article we’ll have a look at physically damaged storage devices, review early signs of upcoming failure and give tips on what to do next if your storage device has failed.